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Overview"Puerto Rico is often depicted as a ""racial democracy"" in which a history of race mixture has produced a racially harmonious society. In Remixing Reggaeton, Petra R. Rivera-Rideau shows how reggaeton musicians critique racial democracy's privileging of whiteness and concealment of racism by expressing identities that center blackness and African diasporic belonging. Stars such as Tego Calderon criticize the Puerto Rican mainstream's tendency to praise black culture but neglecting and marginalizing the island's black population, while Ivy Queen, the genre's most visible woman, disrupts the associations between whiteness and respectability that support official discourses of racial democracy. From censorship campaigns on the island that sought to devalue reggaeton, to its subsequent mass marketing to U.S. Latino listeners, Rivera-Rideau traces reggaeton's origins and its transformation from the music of San Juan's slums into a global pop phenomenon. Reggaeton, she demonstrates, provides a language to speak about the black presence in Puerto Rico and a way to build links between the island and the African diaspora." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Petra R. Rivera-RideauPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.476kg ISBN: 9780822359456ISBN 10: 0822359456 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 02 October 2015 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Iintroduction. Reggaetón Takes Its Place 1 1. Iron Fist against Rap 21 2. The Perils of Perreo 52 3. Loíza 81 4. Fingernails con Feeling 104 5. Enter the Hurbans 130 Conclusion. Reggaetón’s Limits, Possibilities, and Futures 159 Notes 171 Bibliography 199 Index 215ReviewsAn engaging intersectional exploration of reggaeton in the context of Puerto Rican racial politics, with a focus on how Afro-'diasporic resources' are deployed to counter the insidiousness of racial democracy discourses. Building upon ethnography, musical and performance analysis, and an expansive bibliography focused on racial politics, diasporic blackness, and popular culture, Remixing Reggaeton features a provocative exploration of Puerto Rican blackness(es) and the multiple ways they can be embodied, performed, perceived, and explained. --Raquel Z. Rivera, coeditor of Reggaeton Petra R. Rivera-Rideau does an outstanding job explaining the contradictory power dynamics behind the representations of blackness in Puerto Rico. In exploring the ways in which racial identities get re-structured, re-organized, and even elided through the music industry, Rivera-Rideau provides a significant contribution and a brilliant intervention into studies on race, blackness, and popular music in Puerto Rico. --Frances Aparicio, author of Listening to Salsa: Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures Author InformationPetra R. Rivera-Rideau is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Virginia Tech. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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